A manual of the diseases of the eye, or, Treatise on ophthalmology / by S. Littell ; revised and enlarged, by Hugh Houston.
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- 1838
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Credit: A manual of the diseases of the eye, or, Treatise on ophthalmology / by S. Littell ; revised and enlarged, by Hugh Houston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![recorded in which the eye was protruded and destroyed from this cause_, and it eventually became necessary to remove the disorganized and hypertrophied parts by an operation. TUMOURS. Morbid growths of various kinds,—osseous^ sarcomatous, encysted, and hydatid,—are occasionally met with in the orbit, and as, independently of their effects upon the eye, they may produce absorption of the orbitar process, and thus occasion fatal pressure upon the brain, they should be removed by an early operation. [They produce the same symptoms as the diseases of the organ last described. When the tumours are situated in the inferior part of the orbit, the inferior lid is to be stretched, and the skin of the lid, and the orbicular muscle should be incised in the direction of its fibres; the cyst or tumour is to be seized with a tenaculum, and detached from the surrounding parts with a bistoury. The globe of the eye will then as- sume its normal position; but should it not, slight pressure is to be made upon it, by means of rn appropriate bandage, and the edges of the wound are to be approximated by adhesive plaster or simple suture,]] When their contents are fluid, a simple puncture may suffice; but in other cases an incision will be required, either through the integuments or conjunctiva, according to circumstances,—the former being preferable when the tumour is situated above the levator muscle, and does not extend far within the orbit. Dr. Monteath found it necessary, in one instance, to make an incision perpen-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21933285_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
